A Quarterly Journal of Culture and Politics
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Volume 2 — Number 2
Winter 2022
Martha C. Nussbaum on not hating the body;David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg explain what numbers cannot capture; Maria Stepanova on living out of time during Covid; Pratap Mehta on India’s Voltaire; Michael Kimmage on American rise of decline; Nicholas Lemann on gaining his religion; Samuel Moyn on rights v. duties in contemporary liberalism; William Deresiewicz analyzes our culture’s obsession with origin stories; Alastair Macaulay on Merce Cunningam’s singular beauty and importance; Helen Vendler on the tormented life of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on ancient philosophy as self-help; Philip Kitcher on the cost of pre-professionalization at college campuses; Celeste Marcus on The Night Porter as a love story; Leon Wieseltier on art, politics, and confusion; and, new poems by Andrew Motion, Colin Channer, and Aaron Fagan.
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